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Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 12:03 pm
by 761st
I a just going to say, "No thanks for that assignment. " I will take the Nam truck over that bit of engineering any day.

Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 12:40 pm
by lmcq11
An interesting recent development by the Russians is the deployment of the T-90M tanks in Ukraine. The T-90M is the latest version of the T-90 with a completely new turret, remote control weapon station behind commander, latest Relikt armor, new engine, new main gun and fire control system. It entered service in 2020 and should not be confused with the T-90MS, which is a modernized T-90S mainly for export. These T-90M tanks are few in numbers and were obviously kept in reserve until now to face NATO. Their deployment to Ukraine show the Russian willingness to achieve a breakthrough at any cost. The T-14 Armata is not yet ready for combat and unlikely to be deployed.

Shown here is a T-90M destroyed by the Ukrainians on the eastern front. Its unclear at this time what weapon destroyed it.
T-90M
T-90M
Looks good on exercises and parades.
T-90M
T-90M
T-90M
T-90M

Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 2:12 pm
by HERMAN BIX
Looks like a flat black spray can explosion!!
A lesson from n correct aerosol storage kids ;)

Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 5:34 pm
by lmcq11
HERMAN BIX wrote:Looks like a flat black spray can explosion!!
A lesson from n correct aerosol storage kids ;)
At least it managed to keep its turret instead of participating in the Jack-in-the-box turret throw distance contest underway in Ukraine.

Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 9:37 pm
by tankme
LOL..."Jack-in-the-box"...just about spit out my drink.

Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 6:34 pm
by lmcq11
Very nice video of a build of the Cruiser Moscow, capturing a historical moment in modern naval warfare. Lots of technical tips on building warships.

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Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 6:51 am
by Kaczor
Captured T-80BV marked as "Fury" :)

Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 4:45 pm
by lmcq11
And here we have a captured Russian MT-LB with the latest type of add-on armor technology, a sand box.
Sand armor
Sand armor
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Sand armor
Sand armor
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Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Wed May 11, 2022 2:45 pm
by lmcq11
Amazing Russian T-72B3 turret throw captured by Chinese TV. Turret throw is a feature that would be interesting to reproduce on a RC T-72.

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T-72B3 turret throw
T-72B3 turret throw
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Re: Latest Ukraine war fashion for your T72/T90

Posted: Wed May 11, 2022 2:58 pm
by AlwynTurner
The sand box armour really perplexes me, I mean an anti-tank missile travelling at many ks per hour wouldn't even notice the sand or the wood. Maybe they had some pet cats and needed a kitty litter box to take with them? Now a couple of stout wooden logs might make a difference and surely they have seen enough pics of shermans withe log armour from WW2, or maybe they haven't had time to do the internet research, who knows?

Alwyn :thumbup: :wave: